How do I get rid of Kudzu?

[Steven R. Ringwald]

Benjamin Sher wrote:

> Dear friends:
>
> Every time I boot up Kudzu insists on checking my hardware. 
> Specifically, checking my printer. I configured my printer a long time 
> ago in Gnome and it works perfectly in both Gnome and KDE. But the 
> hardware configuration box keeps showing up every bootup. I've 
> considered removing it but yum tells me that if I do, I'll have to 
> remove all of KDE. So the obvious question is: how do I disable it so 
> it NEVER shows up again during bootup or whenever unless I personally 
> invoke it?
>
> Thank you so much. 


 From the command line:

chkconfig kudzu off

should disable the kudzu 'service' from being started. Change 'off' to 
'on' to re-enable it (should you want it to check at boot-time later on).